Funny germs give clues to the ancestor of all complex life

Funny germs give clues to the ancestor of all complex life


An artist on Earth in Archian Eon, 3.8 billion to 2.5 billion years ago

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The mysterious microbes living in the Wetlands in China have helped narrow the ancestors of all animals and plants – and the oxidation of the Earth’s atmosphere may have played an important role in its emergence.

The new data brings us a step closer to understand “an incident that happened billions of years ago” Burk and At the University of Denmark at the University of Denmark.

This incident was …

(Tagstotranslet) origin of life